keyboard

[ kee-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈkiˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

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noun

the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.

a set of keys usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, typesetting machine, computer terminal, or the like.

any of various musical instruments played by means of a pianolike keyboard, as a piano, electric piano, or organ.

verb (used with or without object)

Also key, key in. Computers. to enter (information) into a computer by means of a keyboard.

to set (text) in type, using a machine that is operated by a keyboard.

Origin of keyboard

First recorded in 1810–20; key¹ + board

OTHER WORDS FROM keyboard

key·board·er, key·board·ist, noun re·key·board, verb

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Example sentences from the Web for keyboard

The general public has never paid much attention to his music, but other pianists know what this man can do at the keyboard.

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Like his three brothers, Art, the Nevilles' keyboard player, has his thing on the side—the Meters, the band he took to Europe.

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Art led the family starship on keyboard and did his own good share of singing.

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Carroll talks to me over the sound of an organ projecting from a Yamaha keyboard.

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As one of these images shows, every key punch was in the script and linked to a graphic of the keyboard.

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Unfortunately, our system of musical symbols and the keyboard itself are very complex.

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She sat down to the piano with a little quickening of the breath and let her fingers rest a moment on the keyboard.

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He slid into the vacant chair and his fingers began to move over the keyboard.

The Secret Pact |Mildred A. Wirt
With them he sang, thundered, and thought upon the keyboard of his grand piano-forte.

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But so it was, and the keyboard had to be rediscovered in the twelfth century.

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British Dictionary definitions for keyboard

keyboard

/ (ˈkiːˌbɔːd) /

noun

a complete set of keys, usually hand-operated, as on a piano, organ, typewriter, or typesetting machine
(as modifier)a keyboard instrument

(often plural) a musical instrument, esp an electronic one, played by means of a keyboard

verb

to set (a text, etc) in type, onto magnetic tape, or into some other medium, by using a keyboard machine

Derived forms of keyboard

keyboarder, noun

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keyboard

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verb (used with or without object)

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